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Redinge of olde auctours and storyes my mooste honorable lorde, I fynde that men in tyme paste were of longer lyfe, and of more prosperous helthe: than they are nowe a dayes. Whiche thynge as hit greued me, so in maner hit enforced me,to seke the cause of this sodeyne and strange alteration. For why, hit is written, that Adam lyued.930. yere. The Sibils of Cumane liued .iii.C. wynters: Nestor .iii. C. wynters: Arganton kynge of Tartesses.iii. C. yeres: And Galen that that famous doctour a. C. and xl. yeres, but nowe a daies, alas, if a man may aproche to xl. or .lx. yeres, men repute hym happye and fortunate. But yet howe manye come therto? To serche and gyue the very true reason herof passeth my small capacite: without I may saye hit be, bycause we fulfyll nat the commandementes of all myghtye god, whiche to well wyllynge persons are very lyght and of no burden. For oure lorde saythe, My yocke is swete, and my bourden lyghte to be borne. Saythe not the prophet Dauyd, that who so feareth god, and walkethe in his wayes and preceptes, shall se his childers chyldren. And Salomon sayth, O my chyldren, forgette nat my preceptes and lawes, for they shal kepe you and prolo[n]g your dayes and yeres. And I wylle, saythe oure lorde god by Dauyd, le[n]gthen his dayes. Than may not this be a reasonable cause of this our shorte and wretched lyfe. Trewly I suppose it be by our mislyuynge and fylthy synne; whiche beynge so abominable and soo horryble, is at some tyme the verye cause of corporalle infyrmyte, and of shorte lyfe. Sayde nat our lorde, the phisitian of all phisitians, unto the sycke man: Nowe I have healed the, departe thou from hens, and loke thou synne nomore, leste a worse harme happen uppon the? Or whether shall I saye, that hit chauncethe by our mysse dyete; and to moche surfettynge; Trewelye, the prouerbe saythe, that there dye manye mo by surfette, than by the sworde.
Accordynge wherto the wyse man saythe, Surfette sleethe manye a one: and temperance prolongeth the lyfe. Surfette and dyuersytes of meates and drynkes, lettynge and corruptinge the digestion, febleth man, and very ofte causeth this shortenes of lyfe. What other thynge but mysse diete caused Ptolomeus Philadelphus to be so myserably and peynefullye vexed with the goute, and so as hit is wrytten, that nothynge could relesse his peyne, sauyng deth; What caused Antipater, and that noble man Mecenas, to be continually vexed with the feuer but yl diete. What other thinge infected Aristarcus with the dropsy, but yl dyete. Yll dyete (as me thynkethe) is chyefe cause of all dangerous and intollerable diseases, and of the shortenes of mans lyfe. Than hit must nedes folowe, that a temperate and a moderate dyete, prolongethe mans lyfe, and saveth hym from all suche peynful diseases. And therfore Asclepiades that noble physition, professed, There are .v. necessary thinges to conserue and prolonge mans prosperite, and helth: that is abstinence from meate, abstinence from wyne, rubbynge of the body, exersise, and digestion. O howe holsome is hit than to use good dyete, to lyve temperately, to eschewe excess of meates and drynkes. Yea howe greately are we Englishe men bou[n]de to the maisters of the uniuersite of Salerne (Salerne is in the realme of Naples) whiche vouchesafed in our behalfe to compile this so necessarye, and soo holsome a boke; But what auaylethe it, to have golde or abundance of ryches, if one can nat use hit;
What helpeth costely medicines, if one receyve them nat; So what profyteth us a boke, be hit never so expedyent and frutefulle, if we understande hit nat? wherfore I, consyderynge the fruite that myghte come of this boke, if it were tra[n]slated in to the englyshe tonge (for why, euerye man understandeth nat the latyne) I thoughte it were verye expedyent at some tymes, for the welthe of unlerned persones, to busye my selfe ther in. For lerned persons, and suche as haue greate experie[n]ce, nede no istructio[n]s to diete them selfe, nor to conserue their helth. Yet if such other wise and diserete p[er]sons, as is your lordshyppe, by chaunce rede this boke: they maye perauenture fynde that shall please them: and that besides theyr owne dyete and custome of lyuynge, shall be for theyr corporall welfare and good helth. I wyll nat, nor it becomethe me nat, to exhorte your lordshyp with let of other your great bysynesses, to rede this poore translation: but if per chaunce at your leysoure ye rede it, I humblye desyre and praye your lordeshyppe to rede it with forgyuenes. And to accepte the same as it is worthye.
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HERE FOLLVVITH
THE TABLE
Anger. Folio primo.
After noone slepe fo.
Appetite loste . 6.
Ayer temperate and clere. 34.
Appuls & theyr proprite. 13.
Atemperance of natural hete.eo.
Ale, the whose goodnes resteth in fyve thynges. 39.
Ale not well sodde. ibidem
Ale moderatly dronke. ibidem
Amarellns, a byrde. 52.
Amitie betwene the pike and the perche. 53.
Assis mylke. 59.
Ale or beere, and .viii. propretes therof. 67.
Ale that norisheth moch. ibidem
Anis sede & .ii. utilites therof. 70.
Auripigmentum . 93.
Asshes of coler . 99.
Asshes of fleme. Ibidem
Asshes of bloud.ibidem.
Asshes of naturall melancoly. Ibidem.
Abundance of ruddy fleshe. 110.
Age mete for bloud lettynge. 104. and 114.
Abundence of humours. 107.
Abundance of bloudde. 113.
Assellaris the veine. 115.
Branchns.folio. 5.
Bygge men. 9.
Best hogge flesh. 17.
Blacke wynes. 22 page mislabelled as 18. and 37.
Breadde made of wheate. 23 page mislabelled as 19.
Blacke wheate.ibidem.
Butter milke called odor, or Baluvca. Ibidem.
Braynes well dygested, and for whom they be holsom. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Bytter wyne. 27.
Byndynge red wyne. 29.
Bytynge fume. 30.
Bealies in wynter & ver. 40.
Breadde yll bake. 45.
Bread bake on a stone or in a panne. Ibidem.
Bread over swete and salte. 46.
Branne.ibidem.
Bacon.eodem.
Beastail fyshe. 54.
Blacke ryce.ibidem.
Broth of pulce.ibidem.
Butter mylke. 59.
Butter & propreties therof. 60.
Beere of Amburge. 67.
Braine of hogges, shepe, hare and cony. 69.
Brothe of cole wortes. 77.
Buls horne. 81.
Brymme of the stomake. 84.
Bourstennes.ibidem.
Bealy ache, and the remedy. 87.
Beatynge aboute the head. 89.
Branchus. 93.
Brymstone.eodem.
Bloudde. 94.
Bloudde lettynge. 103.
Basilica the veyne. 115.
Constraynyng of the fundamente.fo. 2.
Combynge of the heed in the mornynge. 3.
Colde complexion. 4.
Catarrus .ibidem.
Corporall cnndites. 10.
Costome in eatynge. Ibidem.
Clene stomake. 11.
Corrupt Stomake.ibidem.
Chawynge of meate. 12.
Chese good to be chosen before al other .eodem.
Cowe fleshe. 16.
Choyce of good fleshe standeth in .iii. thynges. 17.
Cockis stonis. 19.
Choyce of egges.ibidem.
Claret wyne. 22 page mislabelled as 18.
Choyce of Braynes. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Chekyns and Capons braynes.ibidem.
Choyce of fygges. 25.
Coldnes of wyne in tast .ibidem.
Coler. 28. &. 94. &. 96. &. 97.&. 4.&. 109.&. 116.
Choyce of holsome ayer. 32.
Close ayer. 34.
Claret or white wyne. 35.
Chyldren shulde nat drynke wyne. 38.
Choyce of breadde. 45.
Crustis of breadde. 46.
Capon. 50.
Carpe. 53.
Condicion of good fishe 54.
Creueses. 55.
Chese and yeles. 56.
Camels mylke. 59.
Coagulation of mylke in the stomake.eodem.
Cowis mylke.ibidem.
Chese and 4. propreties therof . 60.
Chese eaten alone. 61.
Chese eaten after mete, eodem.
Chese after fleshe. 62.
Cheries, & .iii. commoditites that come of them . 64. & . 65.
Caper. 71.
Colde talages. 72.
Custome in thinges not naturall. 74.
Chaunge of dyete .eodem.
Custome to one thynge. 75.
Cole wortes. 77.
Castorie and the vertu therof. 79.
Cherfy, and vertue therof. 84.
Canker.ibidem.
Carnall copulation. 89. and . 90 page mislabelled as 80. and . 106.and. 119.
Colde of the heed. 92.
Catarrus.ibidem. and. 93.
Colde water. 93.
Coler prassine. 98.
Colde. 101.
Colerike persones and tokens to knowe them .eodem.
Colours that follow the complections. 103.
Colours sygnifieng superfluite of bloud .ibidem.
Causes of blud lettynge . 109.
Clere ayer . 111.
Crisis, what it is . 112.
Clistirs. 113.
Cephalica the veyne . 115.
Delicate metes and drinkes . 2.
Dronkennes . 5. and . 35. & . 88. and . 89. and . 91. and hurtes engendered therof.
Day rest. 6.
Disease ilica. 8.
Darkenes of sighte .ibidem.
Diffinition whether one shuld eate more at dyner or at supper .oedem.
Digestion. 11.
Decoction of drye peches. 13.
Drynkynge of mylke . 14.
Difference of wines i color . 20.
Dressynge of braynes . 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Delicious meates.eodem.
Driefigges. 25.
Drie grape. 26.
Doulce wynes of meane substance . 29.
Drye nuttes, and hurtes that they engender. 32.
Drye rewe .eodem.
Dyete after the .iii. seasons of the yere. 40.
Difference of sauces. 44.
Diverse good sauces for sommer. 44.
Drynkynge of muste . 46.
Dissenteria . 47.
Drynkynge of water uppon meate. 48. and . 49.
Dressynge of lampreys . 56.
Drynkynge at dyner and supp.eodem. and . 57. and . 61.
Drye poulse. 58.
Drinking betwene meales. 61.
Diete customable. 74.
Diete certayne. 75.
Diete of .iii. maners.eodem.
Diete foe noble men. 76.
Diete in somer & winter.ibi.
Dietynge of sicke folks.eo.
Diete in Somer, winter, Autumme, and Ver. 77.
Decoction of cole wortes.eo.
Decoction of rape sede. 81.
Duste. 91.
Diuision of humours. 95.
Diete after blud letting. 104.
Dates mete to lette blud. 105.
Disposition of the ayer. 108.
Directe bloud lettynge. 109.
Diseases of the face. 117.
Drynknge of water. 47.
Eatynge of soundry metes at one meale. 12.
Eatynge of peares. 13.
Examples of milke eting. 14.
Egges rosted .ii. wayes. 20.
Egges sodde in water.ii. wayes .ibidem.
Egges sod in good broth.eo.
Eger thynges. 28.
Eatyng of frutes in Autum. 41.
Eies and .xxi. thynges hurtfull to them. 89.
Egge rere rosted & newe. 57.
Eatynge of appuls. 63.
Enula campana, and effectes therof. 84.
Eatyng of yeles. 92.
Effectes of blud letting. 109.
Elborie. 118.
Fat corsy folks. 1.
Fylth of the tethe. 4.
Fever. 5.
Fever effimeras.ibidem.
Feble appetite. 11.
Feyned hunger .eodem.
Flower of wheate. 18.
Foules beste to eate. 50.
Fruites laxative. 26.
Fryed egges. 20.
Fayrenes of wyne. 27.
Fragrant wyne.eodem.
Five propretes of bread. 45.
Freshe water fyshe. 54. & . 55.
Freshe fyshe.eodem.
Fenell sede. 69.
Fyre. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Fystule and cure therof. 93.
Fleme. < A HREF="regimen95.JPG">95. 96. 97.
Fyve thynges in bloudde lettynge. 108.
Fyve thynges to be eschewed after bloud lettynge. 111.
Fastynge on sommer. 118.
Fanis brachii. 115.
Gotis mylke. 15. 23 page mislabelled as 19. Gotis fleshe. 16. and . 18.
Grosse wynes. 22 page mislabelled as 18.
Gotis bryne. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Grosse and swete wynes. 27.
Garlyke and propretes therof. 30. 31. 43. and . 80.
Grosse fyshe. 44.
Grey goose. 50.
Goose fleshe. 52.
Gurnarde. 54.
Gurnus. 53.
Grene chese. 23 page mislabelled as 19. 61.
Galingale. 71.
Good custome. 74.
Gotes bloud. 80.
Gashe made in bloudde lettinge. 110.
Hotte bodyes. 2.
Heate of the day. 8.
Heed ache called vertigo.ibi.
Hartes fleshe. 16.
Hare fleshe.ibidem.
Hogge fleshe. 17.
Harde egges. 19.
Hotte wyne. 21 page mislabelled as 17.
Hogges stones. 23 page mislabelled as 19.
Hares brayne. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Hangyng wyne. 27.
Hurtes of swete foodes. 28.
Hony.ibidem. and . 83.
Herbes holsom for drink. 42.
Herbes sodde in vyneger. 43.
Hotte bread. 45.
Henne. 50.
Harde fyshes. 52.
Hearynge. 55.
Hulles of pulce. 58.
Harte of beastes. 69.
Hennes brines.eodem.
Horse donge. 81.
Hysope & theffectes. 83.
Hyll Worte. 85.
Hernyg & grefes therof. 88.
Humminge in the eare.eodem.
Henbane. 91.
Horsnes &. 6. causes therof.ib.
Hotte foodes. 92.
Hotte ayer.ibidem.
Humors in man. 94.
Hurte of bloud lettynge. 104.
Hurt strynge. 107.
Heed ache. 5.
And remedy for it. 117. and . 118.
Hunger. 118.
Joyfull lyfe. 2.
Jeuse of cole wortes. 77.
Jeuse of water cressis. 85.
Jeuse of rue. 32.
Kyd fleshe. 16. 17. 18. &. 50.
Kernel of the chery stone. 64.
Kernelles. 65.
Likes. 31. 86. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Lamme. 50.
Lopsters. 55.
Lampreys.eodem.
Lightes. 69.
Lavender. 80.
Laske. 104.
Malowes. 78.
Melancoly. 1. 36. 94. 95. 98. 109.
Makynge of water. 2.
Moderate ioy.eodem.
Moderate diete.eodem.
Marye. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Mushroms. 32.
Malarde. 52.
Mackerel. 55.
Medlars. 66.
Mawe. 69.
Ministrynge of diete. 75.
Mustarde sede. 82. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Melancoly folks. 102.
Mediana the veyne. 115.
Megrymme. 117.
Mother worte. 117.
Night rest. 6.
Natural heate. 9.
Newe fruite. 13.
Newe layde egges. 19.
Nuttes. 31. 32. 62. 63. 65. 91.
Nettils. 83.
Nombre of bones teth & veines. 93.
Natural bloude. 95.
Olde chese. 15.
Olde befe. 19.
Oynions. 30. 31. 81. 82. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Osill. 51.
Orex.eodem.
Oleander. 81.
Oyle. 91.
Ofte angry. 102.
Peason. 57.
Pyke.ibidem.
Pose and reume. 5.
Putrified fever.eodem.
Prolonging time in eating. 12.
Porke. 16. 17. 19. 23 page mislabelled as 19. 24 page mislabelled as 20. 46.
Pepper. 43. 87. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Persly.ibidem.
Pygge. 46.
Pertryches. 50.
Pigions.eodem. and . 51.
Phesande. 51.
Pecocke. 52.
Prune. 64.
Purselane. 86.
Profytes of blude letting. 104.
Quicke spyryte. 4.
Quailes. 51.
Quietnesse. 119.
Rawe appuls. 92.
Rapis. 68 page mislabelled as 71.
Romynge after rest. 3.
Reumes flowig to the teth. 117.
Reume, &.vii.remedies. 92.
Rere rosted egges. 19. 104. 108.
Red wyne. 21 page mislabelled as 17. 22 page mislabelled as 18. 27. 29.
Red coler. 118.
Rose flower. 42.
Remedy for parbrakynge on the see. 42.
Rudducke. 51.
Sage & bounte therof . 78. 79.
Salmon. 55.
Stande after meate. 4.
Sodayne change. 10.
Staunchynge of bloudde. 13.
Salte meate. 15.
Strife in choyce of fleshe. 18.
Stones of beastes. 23 page mislabelled as 19.
Sommer. 119.
Swete wynes. 24 page mislabelled as 20.
Stare. 50.
Sparowe. 52.
Swoundyng. 107.
Salte.eodem.
Selfyshe. 53.
Spodium. 70.
Saluatella the veyn. 115.
Sauorynes. 72.
Tenches. 53.
Thaught and care. 1.
Tranquillite of minde. 2.
Tympany. 7.
True luste to meate. 12.
Temperate bodyes. 14.
Tokens of good wine. 26. 27. 28.
Triacle. 33.
Tremulus. 51.
Tripes. 46.
Turtill. 50.
Troute. 53.
Turbut. 55.
Tonge. 69.
Tansey. 80.
Thre thynges to consyder in bloud lettynge. 110.
Tymeand age to let bloud in. 111. 114.
Walkynge after meate. 1.
Washyng of the eies with clere colde water. 3.
Washynge of the handes.eo.
Washynge of tethe. 4.
Whyte wyne. 20. 21 page mislabelled as 17. 29.
Wheate sodde. 23 page mislabelled as 19.
Vometynge. 35. 39. 88. 89. 96. 118. 119.
Wyne. 36. 37. 38. 39. 41. 42. 48. 49. 56. 62. 63. 89. 104. 108. 109.
Wodde cocke. 51.
Vendosies. 55.
Whey. 60.
Vine eger. 67.
Wyne soppes. 73.
Wylde gourds. 80.
Violettis. 82.
Willowes. 86.
Wepynge. 90 page mislabelled as 80.
Water holsome for the eies. 91.
Ver season. 119.
Yolkes of egges. 19. 22 page mislabelled as 18.
Yonge ppoullettis. 50.
FINIS TABVLE
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